Volume 151 (1861)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

32 articles

Articles

Front Matter

Anonymous (23 pages)
The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction

John Tyndall (38 pages)
On an Extension of Arbogast's Method of Derivations

Arthur Cayley (8 pages)
On the Equation for the Product of the Differences of All but One of the Roots of a Given Equation

Arthur Cayley (16 pages)
On the Synthesis of Succinic and Pyrotartaric Acids

Maxwell Simpson (8 pages)
On the Calculus of Symbols, with Applications to the Theory of Differential Equations

W. H. L. Russell (15 pages)
On the Properties of Liquid Carbonic Acid

G. Gore (6 pages)
On Magnetic Storms and Earth-Currents

Charles V. Walker (47 pages)
On the Surface-Condensation of Steam

J. P. Joule (29 pages)
On the Effect Produced on the Deviations of the Compass by the Length and Arrangement of the Compass-Needles; and on a New Mode of Correcting the Quadrantal Deviation

Frederick John Evans, Archibald Smith (26 pages)
Liquid Diffusion Applied to Analysis

Thomas Graham (43 pages)
On the Porism of the In-And-Circumscribed Polygon

Arthur Cayley (16 pages)
Tables of the Weights of the Human Body and Internal Organs in the Sane and Insane of Both Sexes at Various Ages, Arranged from 2614 Post-Mortem Examinations

Robert Boyd (23 pages)
On a New Auxiliary Equation in the Theory of Equations of the Fifth Order

Arthur Cayley (15 pages)
A Seventh Memoir on Quantics

Arthur Cayley (17 pages)
On Systems of Linear Indeterminate Equations and Congruences

Henry J. Stephen Smith (35 pages)
On the Method of Symmetric Products, and on Certain Circular Functions Connected with That Method

Robert Harley (31 pages)
On the Double Tangents of a Curve of the Fourth Order

Arthur Cayley (7 pages)
Electro-Physiological Researches.--Eleventh Series. On the Secondary Electromotor Power of Nerves, and Its Application to the Explanation of Certain Electro-Physiological Phenomena

Carlo Matteucci (11 pages)
On Liquid Transpiration in Relation to Chemical Composition

Thomas Graham (15 pages)
On the Structure and Growth of the Tooth of Echinus

S. James A. Salter (25 pages)
On Fermat's Theorem of the Polygonal Numbers

Frederick Pollock (14 pages)
On the Great Magnetic Disturbance Which Extended from August 28 to September 7, 1859, as Recorded by Photography at the Kew Observatory

Balfour Stewart (12 pages)
On the Sources of the Nitrogen of Vegetation; with Special Reference to the Question Whether Plants Assimilate Free or Uncombined Nitrogen

John Bennet Lawes, Evan Pugh, Joseph Henry Gilbert (152 pages)
On the Indian Arc of Meridian

J. H. Pratt (17 pages)
Notes on the Generative Organs, and on the Formation of the Egg in the Annulosa

John Lubbock (36 pages)
On the Influence of Atmospheric Pressure upon Some of the Phenomena of Combustion

E. Frankland (28 pages)
Erratum

Anonymous (2 pages)
Account of Experiments Made at Holyhead (North Wales) to Ascertain the Transit-Velocity of Waves, Analogous to Earthquake Waves, through the Local Rock Formations

Robert Mallet (32 pages)
On the Construction of Specula of Six-Feet Aperture; and a Selection from the Observations of Nebulae Made with Them

Earl of Rosse (74 pages)
On the Elimination of Urea and Urinary Water, in Relation to the Period of the Day, Season, Exertion, Food, Prison Discipline, Weight of Body, and Other Influences Acting in the Cycle of the Year

Edward Smith (114 pages)
Back Matter

Anonymous (30 pages)